ABSTRACT Worldwide Statistic provides that, women are underrepresented in management position in education. Therefore this study sought to investigate challenges facing women involvement in educational management in Siaya County. The study objectives were to determine women representation in positions of school management, to analyze the social-cultural, economic and administrative factors and find out the strategies that women in positions of school management use in coping with the challeng...
ABSTRACT Experience in early childhood education has shown that there is need to respond to the many types of complex social issues and economic trends affecting children in developing countries as a result of family adjustments and disruptions. In the Kenyan traditional society, the family set-up was anchored on extended family arrangements and children were mainly counseled by the grandparents, aunties, uncles and other relatives. This ensured a solid background which was healthy for the d...
ABSTRACT School attendance is seen as one of the measures to ensure that all school going children are in school. Children’s poor school attendance is not just a Kenyan predicament but rather a global concern. The Kenyan government in the recent past has put in a lot of efforts to ensure attendance of all school children with the introduction of Free Primary Education (FPE) in the year 2003. Despite these efforts, there have been few studies carried out in Kibera to establish how socio-econ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the challenges facing teaching and learning of agriculture in public secondary schools in Kakuyuni Division. The objectives of the study were to: find out the current status in teaching and learning of agriculture, uncover the institutional-based challenges and determine the non-institutional challenges in the teaching and learning of agriculture in secondary schools. Descriptive Survey research design was used for the study. Questionnaire an...
ABSTRACT School based Teacher Development Programme (SbTD) is an in-service course for primary school teachers that aims at improving the quality of Primary School Education. In Siaya District SbTD was implemented in 2003 and by the time of this study, 486 out of 2785 teachers had undergone through the training in 8 zones under study out of 22 zones in the district in June,2006. Formative assessment of the programme in Siaya in 2006 revealed that out of 230 SbTD trained teachers assessed, on...
ABSTRACT This purpose of this study was meant to analyze the importance and effects of school feeding programme on access to primary education among the socio-economically and nutritionally vulnerable children in unplanned settlement of Kibera. The study strove to help education managers to understand the problems and challenges that have, for long time, kept a large number of children out of school despite the abolition of all levies in primary schools in 2003. It is envisaged that appropri...
ABSTRACT This study sought to establish the roles played by HODs in administrative duties in secondary schools in Kiambu District, Kiambu County. The study focused on the key administrative areas of curriculum, instruction, financial management, teacher management and student management with the aim of comparing expected roles of Heads of Departments against how these roles are perceived by the teachers, head teachers and HODs themselves. Hopefully this is going to justify a training needs a...
ABSTRACT The ability to understand and use information from text is a key predict of a student’s success in school learning. Not all factors related to this ability have been adequately investigated. The purpose of this study was to examine metacognitive knowledge and cognitive reading strategy use as predictors of reading comprehension performance among form three students in Lari Sub County, Kiambu County. The study also tested for gender differences in metacognitive knowledge and cogniti...
Abstract This study is a gender appraisal of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‟s two novels: Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). It interrogates how the author projects the female voice(s) in her writing. We explore how Adichie, an African woman-writer suggests a new vision where men and women collaborate in liberation efforts. African women writers often grapple with neo-colonialism, racism, misrule, poverty, gender bias, ethnic animosity, religious fundamentalism, famine and mi...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to establish the effectiveness of teaching methods for acquisition of daily living skills by learners with mental retardation. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Dependent variable for this study was acquisition of daily-living skills while independent variables were methods of teaching, how teachers applied the methods; challenges encountered and teaching/learning materials used by teachers. The study used purposive sampling to select the distri...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the explanations that students give on achievement outcomes and their academic expectations in Thika Sub-County, Kiambu County. The main objective of the study was to find out if academic achievement was related to causal attributions and academic expectations. Gender differences in causal attributions and academic expectations were also tested. The study also established the interaction effect of causal attributions, academic expectations and academic achieve...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate and assess the influence of effective implementation of life skills education curriculum on educational performance in a set of select public secondary schools in Koibatek Sub-County, Baringo County. The objectives herein were: to identify the influence of implementation of LSE on academic performance in secondary schools, established from teachers and students the adequacy of LSE resource/materials used in teaching LSE, find out the head ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the impact of land clashes on access to primary and secondary education in Chepyuk settlement scheme, Mt Elgon district. The objectives of the study were to assess the impact of land clashes on enrolment, staffing, and educational infrastructure. The study adopted the descriptive survey design where the three secondary and fifteen primary schools in the region were sampled purposively. The respondents included eighteen head teachers, seventy two teac...
ABSTRACT The study investigated challenges of learning Kiswahili amongst pupils with hearing impairment. This was driven by the fact that Kiswahili is important, not only as a national and official language in Kenya, but as a compulsory subject in primary and secondary school curricula. There had been an outcry from various stakeholders that learners performed poorly in Kiswahili in both local and national examinations. Some stakeholders had even conceded that Kiswahili overburdened learners ...
ABSTRACT In the twenty first century, technology use has had huge impact in every sphere of life. Information and Communication Technology has been used enormously in school administration as an aid in data control. With high level of investment in Information and Communication Technology, still there is limited integration of Information and Communication Technology in school management. The purpose of this study was to investigate the utilization of Information and Communication Technology ...